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Posted on 12/06/2016 5:47:45 PM PST by DeweyCA
A widely reported study on longevity of homosexuals appears to have been faked.
When social justice displaces truth as the core value of academics, bad things happen to science. Professor Jonathan Haidt of NYU has taken the lead in pointing out that freedom of thought, freedom of speech, and viewpoint diversity are particularly necessary if universities are going to fulfill their once-core mission of serving the cause of truth. He founded Heterodoxacademy.org to help organize resistance from within the world of scholars.
One thing that happens when social justice displaces truth in the internal scientific community is that less than ordinary care is taken with scientific results that are pleasing to social-justice warriors.
We saw that in 2015, when a major study published in Science, which purported to show that personal canvassing by LGBT people had an amazingly large effect on people’s opinions, was revealed to have been entirely faked, and in ways that one lone grad student, David Broockman, found easy to debunk. (The “scholar” had even created easily checked fake grants from real foundations, thanking them publicly for grants they had never made.)
“In fact, throughout the entire process, until the very last moment when multiple ‘smoking guns’ finally appeared, Broockman was consistently told by friends and advisers to keep quiet about his concerns lest he earn a reputation as a troublemaker,” New York magazine reported.
Now Social Science & Medicine has demonstrated its own scientific integrity by publishing what amounts to a repudiation of another widely reported LGBT study, by Mark Hatzenbuehler, which concluded that “minority stress” was knocking an amazing twelve years off the lives of gay people. The roughly half of American people who don’t believe in gay marriage were killing gay people, the press more or less concluded. “Can Prejudice Kill You? Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Life Expectancy Drops 12 Years in Anti-Gay Communities,” blared Medical Daily. The press was only echoing the study’s authors: “The results of this study suggest a broadening of the consequences of prejudice to include premature death,” Hatzenbuehler said in the press release announcing the study’s publication.
But in mid November, Social Science & Medicine published an attempt to replicate the authors’ data, which not only failed to replicate the results but could find no legitimate way of interpreting the data that would explain how the authors reached their conclusion:
Efforts to replicate Hatzenbuehler et al.’s (2014) key finding on structural stigma’s notable influence on the premature mortality of sexual minorities, including a more refined imputation strategy than described in the original study, failed. No data imputation approach yielded parameters that supported the original study’s conclusions. Alternative hypotheses, which originally motivated the present study, revealed little new information.
In conclusion, the authors note that “ten different approaches to multiple imputation of missing data yielded none in which the effect of structural stigma on the mortality of sexual minorities was statistically significant.”
To heighten the drama, the author of this new study is none other than University of Texas sociologist Mark Regnerus, who was subjected to public abuse for daring to publish, in a peer-reviewed journal, the results of a groundbreaking study suggesting that children raised by gay people fare about as well as children in other, alternative family forms but not as well as children in intact married biological families.
(Regnerus was unable to compare children raised from birth by gay couples in an intact relationship because he could find only two examples of such children in his data set, a finding he freely acknowledged in his own published study.)
In the weeks since the publication of Regnerus’s study attempting to replicate his work, Hatzenbuehler has yet to respond.
Perhaps there is some explanation. Or perhaps, for reasons we can only suspect, Hatzenbuehler (who edited the special journal issue in which his original study was published) slipped a bogus study into a major social-science journal, confident that nobody would want to review and contest its findings, which so please the overwhelmingly liberal academy.
I charitably hope he can explain. But in any case, Mark Regnerus is emerging as a scientific hero, a modern-day Galileo standing up to the new theology of the Left.
Science is not right-wing or left-wing. But to work, it needs scientists fearlessly committed to truth over their preferred outcomes.
Honey Badger don't give a shit about anything National Review says anymore, and wishes people would quite posting NR links here.
Queers have suicide, murder and communicable disease rates 10-30 TIMES (not percent) higher than the straight population.
This according to several major studies including one by Yale (if I remember correctly) which was run by a homosexual man.
It’s not healthy. And we are all paying for it.
This has been going on for at least 20 years. There was a well-run study showing that day care had some harmful effects on kids. The paper was peer reviewed by a couple of American Psychological Association journals and got high marks for the methodology, but the journals refused to publish it because the editors didn’t like the results. The paper was eventually published by a non-APA journal along with a letter from an APA editor rejecting the paper because the results weren’t in line with generally accepted thought.
For a couple of years, I have stated the following mantra, "Reality is homophobic."
The evidence is piling up (at least for me) that homosexuality is just plain unhealthy from a broad statistical perspective.
Isaac Newton died a virgin at age 84. Therefore, asexual Chairmen of the Royal Society have even longer average lifespans than homosexuals. [/sarc].
Talking to friend the other day who attempted to validate his lifestyle by saying “Maybe Homosexuality is natures answer to overpopulation”
Uhm, No:
1. Homosexuals have been around since biblical times
2. Sad that you need to equate a dead end lifestyle with a dead end and ironic as well...
Wow - I heard this very thing from a colleague today!
As homosexuality is fake, so must be its homosexual “science”.
If it were so, then why keep on living? As Christ said, after a couple years of not bearing figs, the fig tree must be withered
Perhaps they will do a new study on the percentage of homosexuals who were sexually molested as children.
The studies done up until 20 years ago all concluded it is a significant majority.
No such studies would be tolerated today, because it could cripple their efforts to target your children.
Some news that seems fake to me is about aids. Remember when they told us that anyone can get aids, and not just butthole bangers?
Well tell me then.........We have heard about people like Rock Hudson dying of aids, people like Magic and Charlie Sheen who have hiv, but where are the women who have the disease?
I found ONE woman celebrity who died of aids, and she got it from her husband, who got it from a blood transfusion. The woman? Believe it or not, Amanda Blake, Miss Kitty from Gunsmoke!
“reality is homophobic”
That is just excellent - I am officially stealing it.
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